The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1887-11-03

FIRE. TEsT TIN
A HaF
A Casket Of Jewels-Ruby. sapphire, pearl, coral
garnet, agate, opal, goldstone.
Poeticsl Tangie-
Live for those who love YOU
For those whose hearts are true:
For the heaven that smiles above you,
Aud the good that you may do.
Practical problem-l742i,OOO acres; geo miles o
fence.
PATRIOTS Fnigma-Admiral Foote Post, No. Il
Department of Connecticut
Crossword EniCma-Psellismus
Rip Van Wrinkles Grucery-Sugar. haddock
moasscs, -four, butter. starch, salaratus, tobacco
oleomArgarine, rice. allspce. cothes-pins, maoe.
sINGULARs AND PLURALs.
1. Negation; part OF the face.
2. To propel a boat; a flower.
3. A streak Of light; to raise up.
4. A beverage; to vex.
.. month; Indian corn.
G. Gorgeous; TO stare iixedly.
Z. A color; TO ruminRte.
\. A division Of time; 10 dazzle.
y. A garden tool; "A flexible tube.
Clio Harper, Prattsburg, Kan.
A wINE-GLAss.
Place 10 kinds of wine so as to form wine glass
prize for first answer In two weeks; date o
mailing 10 goyeTn.-Nathan Hale, West Haven
Conn.
DESIRABLE DIAMOND.
A letter.
Nickname for Confederate.
Assembled.
Wished.
A small fruit
One of Nspoleon's Marshals.
A letter
Clarence N. Bowers. Geneva. o.
cRYPToGRAM.
"M9I Saws adx 59z imxw," hans n,
Nv INKS ii9 adx NV mxakxw?
Ink sniix Sam3xw 3n3 dxb45,
ON SOL I'D IL. Ia lNlr
A. w. Prescott Napoleon. Oak.
BEHEADINGs.
j. Behead an important period and leave publ
cation.
2. To labor and leave TO discntangle.
3. To scold and leave the goddess Of revenge.
4. Cup and leave an estimator.
.. Iligh-soundng talk aud leave an insect
g. Sudden and leave "a tree.
q Fermentation and leave TO corode.
3. A stag and leave dexierity.
*. Van Wrinkle, West Coxsaekie, N. Y.
OUR AvIARY.
j. A color: a letter of the alphabet.
2. A mineral; a line.
3. To destroy; an animal.
4. monarch; name u "a fort.
3. Al insect: one who catches.
q. A sovereign; 10 allow.
z. Fine PARTICLES Of stony matter; musician.
3. To lick; side building.
8. The heavens; "A frolic.
10. A girls nickname; au article Of food
II. The human races related by blood.
j. To impair; white metal.
IL. heavenly light; fish.
ID. A marsh; domestic fowl.
-. Time from sunset 20 sunrise; a falcon.
10. horned animal; a shoot
II. fruit with shell and kernel; brood.
Is. A bolt block; "A dry biscuit.
IL. Face value; decay.
20. A portion; a long elevation Of land.
Book for best list Of answers-Hobart O. Scott
WATERFOWL, Conn.
HIDDEN AcRosTIc.
My first II rain but not In snow;
second is in high, but not in low;
third is ia corn, hut not IA wheat;
fourth T. ia ham. but not in meat;
nth j. candle. bat not ia lamp;
sixth is in soldier, but not ia camp;
My whole H. what many live To gain;
But what once possessed often brings great pain
Harvey w. Baker, Louisiana. Mo.
NUMERICAL ENIGMA.
Las. g. II, 4, a climbing plant;
Q, ii, 10. 8, .. 8. peiriiied animal or plant;
10. 4, . a large body Of water;
81, II. 2 3. 4, T. increased in size;
40 B. atree:
6,9i2 "A troublesome insect;
"a. Ia. rs, -. 10 weep;
., ~, lG, IL, p, 81, struck with fear;
l6. ~, ~. -. 10, l3. aid;
is, u, 70. 20. an image worshiped.
The whole. composed Of p letters, IL a prom
nent politician OF the West.-Ncllie j. Gregg, Glas
gov, Iowa.
C. c. FAvoRITE.
in Arthur not Fred;
Nathan, not jed;
Nora. not Esther;
Ida. not Hester;
Edwin, not Josiah;
Lewis, not Beriah;
Mary. not Ellen;
Annie, not Helen;
Ralph. not saul:
Samuel, not Paul:
Hattie not Matte
The whole Is the name Of a favorite member O
the q. C.-John A. Lyle. Downs Kan.
HISTORICAL ENIGMA.
In Rena NJ. Huber. not Ia Isabella Neeley;
w. q. Wiley. not in Walter H. Seeley:
Odell Cyclone not in Nina Balou;
Josie Stephans not IN Jersey Blue;
Nathan Hale not in John Fox;
q. II. Musgrave, mol la G.. Cox:
Carrie r. Eager, not in I'D Mack;
Ida i. Brandon, not la ii. l.. Kane;
Ahbie X. Bride, not in Anna Payne;
Media Bragg, not In q. n. Parker;
Green Mountain Girl. :" not in d. Harlxer;
B. Il. Webb not in 8 X. Wait;
The Farmer Boy" not in Charles T. Straight
My whole is the name OF the Chief Engineer who
constructed the fertilization on Breeds Hill nea
Boston, in l775. Two novels for first corre6s
answer; time Of mailing 10 decide.-Maggie l.
Hoover Madalin, N. Y.
DIR. Pierce's Pleasant Purgatiye Pellets ar,
both preventive and curative.
THE QUESTION SQUAD.